Play the Game or let the Game Play You

Chapter nine

Kagome POV

She was having fun. She never really was into all this kind of stuff. Going and hanging out with boys. Usually she would be at home studying or reading. Things change a lot when you reach high school. Kagome sighed to herself as she saw Sesshomaru and Rin seperate from the crowd. Everyone was currently sitting on the cement floor of the basketball court. They were all gambling or playing ball. It was like 6:00 in the afternoon and the sun shone an orangy color.

Kagome stared at the crew. When did she start thinking of them as a crew? Kagura and Yura were really close. They were mean at first to her and Sango but they let down their guard. Everyone here seems to have walls around themselves. They probably get paranoid. I wonder why. She smiled at Anzu. Anzu was beating all the guys at Killer. Kagome didn't even know that their was a card game like that. But they all taught her how to play. Tough luck though because it was being played for money and she lost all she had on her.

It was pathetic. Kagome looked around. She was the only one that wasn't in a pair. Unlike everyone else. Sesshomaru and Rin, Sango and Miroku, Koga and Ayame, Seto and Anzu, Naraku and Kagura. It even looked like Yura and Hiten were about to get back together. And yeah there was all the other guys, but they were all best friends. Ginta and Hakaku, Hiei and Kurama, Mantan and Mokuba. Her best friend is currently in love. I feel like an outcast. I know I'm not alone, but damn... it doesn't feel like I belong.

She left the group and walked up the hill where the jungle gym was. The children deserted everything. She sat down on the swing and swayed back and forth looking at the sun. I wouldn't be thinking about this stuff if it wasn't for Inuyasha. I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for him. In a way, him breaking her heart has good and bad effects. "Inuyasha... I hope you're happy..."

Kagome bent down her head and was startled when someone answered her.

"I haven't been happy ever since you left me."

Kagome looked up into golden cream eyes. Eyes she once fell in love with. Eyes that can make her fall a second time. In love and in pain. She looked away and was about to get up but he pulled her back down onto the seat. She was about to protest but he started pushing her back and forth. She swang. Her skirt rising higher and higher. Kagome held onto the chains and thought back to when they were kids.

flashback-

"HIGHER INU-CHAN! HIGHER!" The eight-year-old Kagome giggled out. Inuyasha pushed her harder and harder.

"You're gonna fall. Don't cry like last time!"Nine-year-old Inuyasha said as he pushed her with more force. Kagome screamed in delight as she flew into the sky. "Inu-chan! I'm flying! I'm flying!" Kagome said as she looked down at him. He stopped pushing her and was in front of her now with a grin on his face.

"I didn't know you wore duck underwear!" Inuyasha laughed out. Kagome shrieked and let go of her chains to hold down her skirt. She flew off the swing seat and right onto Inuyasha.

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"So you switched from duck panties to thongs huh?" Kagome instantly reached to her skirts and flew right onto him. She fell on top of him. Her face planted on his shoulder. Kagome slowly sat up using her elbows and stared into Inuyasha's eyes. She saw him staring at her lips as he pulled upwards towards their direction. Why is he doing this to me? Why?

Kagome put two fingers onto his mouth to stop him from kissing her. She couldn't let him. She wanted him to, but she couldn't. Her pride wouldn't let her. "I don't want to taste Kikyo."

With those words Kagome got up, dusted herself and began to slowly walk away from him. Tears welled in her eyes, but she wouldn't let them fall. At least she tried not to let them all fall.

Inuyasha POV

He stared at her as she sat on the swing. She looks so beautiful. Even if her make-up was somewhat smudged. The sun made up for that. Making her glow. He slowly walked behind her and noticed she was deep in thought. It got him wondering on what she was thinking about and was both pleased and sad when he heard what she said.

"Inuyasha... I hope you're happy..."

He wasn't happy. He hasn't been happy ever since he saw those tears in her eyes. Tears caused by him. "I haven't been happy ever since you left me." It was the truth. And he has always been truthful with Kagome.

He stared into her beautiful blue-green eyes as she looked up to him. Eyes that he knew changed color based on her emotions. He knew all those colors and what they meant. He was saddened when it started to mix into blue-gray. Gray meant hurt. Gray was the last thing he saw when she left him. And gray is the same color he is seeing now.

He gently pushed her down onto her seat and started rocking her. He watched as her hat fell off and her hair blow with the wind. He pushed harder wanting to see her raven locks flow with the breeze. Inuyasha pushed her roughly one last time and walked infront of her.

His attention went up to her flapping skirt. And focused on his last memory at seeing her swing in one. "So you switched from duck panties to thongs huh?" He prepared for a collision with her when she flew straight at him.

It felt like Heaven. He could feel her gentle curves and smell her tantalizing scent. He had a full view of her full pink lips. His eyes devoted to them at the moment. Inuyasha felt her hand block him from reaching his destination.

"I don't want to taste Kikyo."

Those words brought tears to his eyes. He watched in a blur as she walked away from him. Kagome... He watched her back as she walked out on him. Again. It hurt to see the girl he grew up with, his best friend. Leave him like that.

He saw her hat lying on the ground and went to pick it up. With one last look at Kagome he went in the opposite direction. More tears entered his eyes when he smelt Kagome's scent on her hat. He wouldn't shed them though. Men don't cry. So the tears falling from his eyes didn't count as crying.